Across Asia from West to East in 1906-1908: Scientific papers
Author : Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 20,56 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN :
Across Asia from West to East in 1906-1908
Author : Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN :
Book Description
The Great State of White and High
Author : Ruth W. Dunnell
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 28,3 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824817190
Book Description
"In the late tenth and eleventh centuries, a group of people known in Western and Japanese scholarship as the Tangut established an independent regime in the Ordos (present-day Ningxia, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Inner Mongolia). It quickly grew into the Xia empire, a multiethnic, multilingual state whose ruling dynasty, a people ethnically and linguistically related to Tibetans, adapted elements of Chinese and Inner Asian statecraft, culture, and religion. Xia continued to grow in prominence, and its people became renowned throughout Asia as devout Buddhists. An imperial state was formally born in 1038 and chronicled its existence up to 1227, when it was finally crushed in Chinggis Khan's last campaign." "The Great State of White and High is the first book-length treatment in English of Tangut Xia history. Exhibiting a mastery of languages, Ruth Dunnell has produced a pioneering, systematic study using primary and secondary sources in Tangut and Chinese to reconstruct early imperial Xia history from the inside."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Across Asia from West to East in 1906-1908
Author : Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,15 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : 9789511212843
Book Description
The Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires
Author : Jin Noda
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 39,40 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9004314474
Book Description
In The Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires, Jin Noda examines the foreign relations of the Kazakh Chinggisid sultans and the Russian and Qing empires during the 18th and 19th centuries. Noda makes use of both Russian and Qing archival documents as well as local Islamic sources. Through analysis of each party’s claims –mainly reflected in the Russian-Qing negotiations regarding Central Eurasia–, the book describes the role played by the Kazakh nomads in tying together the three regions of eastern Kazakh steppe, Western Siberia, and Xinjiang.
Echoes of a Forgotten Presence
Author : Mark Dickens
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 33,16 MB
Release : 2019-07
Category :
ISBN : 3643911033
Book Description
This volume is a collection of ten articles published between 2009 and 2016 by Mark Dickens on the Assyrian Church of the East in Central Asia, along with a new article on Mar Yahbalaha III, the only Turkic patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. Most articles deal with the textual evidence for Syriac Christianity in Central Asia, including six on Christian manuscript fragments from Turfan (China) and two on gravestone inscriptions from Semirechye (Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan). As the volume title indicates, these articles remind us of the centuries-long presence of the Assyrian Church of the East at the centre of the Asian continent, now all but forgotten due to the general scarcity of sources from which this history can be reconstructed.
Ethical Implications of One God
Author : Robert Petkovšek
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 43,56 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN : 364396126X
Book Description
"The issue of the ethical implications of monotheism is a very relevant topic from the point of view of contemporary humanities and social science, and from the perspective of the cultural and political condition in Europe and at the global scale. Therefore a scientific book devoted to this subject makes a lot of sense. Throughout the history and in present times, monotheism has been subjected to several sharp criticisms. On the other hand, we find also very different evaluations of it. They stress its positive and even crucial contribution to peace, forming of rational, non-violent, tolerant culture and society, to the scientific, political and cultural development, to democracy etc. The book offers fresh interdisciplinary perspectives - mainly from the point of view of humanities - on the ethical aspects of monotheism, broadens the scientific understanding of it, and establishes a basis for resolving conflicts to which the understanding of monotheism is relevant or even decisive."--
Thus Spake the Dervish
Author : Alexandre Papas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 29,54 MB
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004402020
Book Description
Thus Spake the Dervish explores the unfamiliar history of marginal Sufis, known as dervishes, in early modern and modern Central Asia over a period of 500 years. It draws on various sources (Persian chronicles and treatises, Turkic literature, Russian and French ethnography, the author’s fieldwork) to examine five successive cases, each of which corresponds to a time period, a specific socially marginal space, and a particular use of mystical language. Including an extensive selection of writings by dervishes, this book demonstrates the diversity and tenacity of Central Asian Sufism over a long period. Here translated into a Western language for the first time, the extracts from primary texts by marginal Sufis allow a rare insight into their world. The original French edition of this book, Ainsi parlait le dervice, was published by Editions du Cerf (Paris, France). Translated by Caroline Kraabel.
Four Finns
Author : Marvin Rintala
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 45,11 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Finland
ISBN :
Book Description
International Encyclopedia of Military History
Author : James C. Bradford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 3109 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1135950334
Book Description
With its impressive breadth of coverage – both geographically and chronologically – the International Encyclopedia of Military History is the most up-to-date and inclusive A-Z resource on military history. From uniforms and military insignia worn by combatants to the brilliant military leaders and tacticians who commanded them, the campaigns and wars to the weapons and equipment used in them, this international and multi-cultural two-volume set is an accessible resource combining the latest scholarship in the field with a world perspective on military history.
